14.10.2010 by maning A leading figure in Brazil's environment movement, ErwinKräutler, is one of the four winners of the Right Livelihood Award 2010, known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'. The 71-year-old Catholic Bishop of Xingu in the Amazon region is ...

30.09.2010 by Robert Steele Bishop ERWINKRÄUTLER (Brazil) is honoured “for a lifetime of work for the human and environmental rights of indigenous peoples and for his tireless efforts to save the Amazon forest from destruction”. ...

31.03.2008 Catholic bishop ErwinKräutler, of the Altamira diocese in the western Amazon region of Brazil, reportedly has a half-million dollar bounty on his head, all for opposing the dispossession of indigenous peoples and farmers by ranchers ...